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Singer Michael Ball has addressed the scandal surrounding a charity set up in Captain Sir Tom Moore’s honour, saying he is “disappointed” by a report which found it was “mismanaged”.

Ball sang with the late veteran on his charity single, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, which raised money for NHS Charities Together during the pandemic.

Shown on ITV Good morning UK, The 62-year-old said it was “almost like I don’t want to talk about my association”, after it was discovered that Captain Tom’s family had “repeatedly benefited” from the Captain Tom Foundation.

A damning report published this week found that Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin, had left the public “understandably misled” after sales of the World War II veteran’s autobiography were not donated to the charity.

It also found “serious and repeated instances of misconduct and/or mismanagement” in the running of the charity by the couple’s conduct and actions.

There were no findings related to the charity single.

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When asked about his reaction to the report, Ball said he was “disappointed … and if you take yourself back to what happened during that time, I’m doing my radio show on Radio 2, just come back with Covid, we’ll do it” don’t know what will happen.

“I hear about this story about him, get him on the radio, we have a bond, the money starts coming in and it grew, and then I got this idea for this record.

“It’s totally, including from Tom, totally altruistic, totally wanting to have focus, something for people to connect with, to show the good, and now it’s almost like I don’t want to talk about my association.

“It was something I was so incredibly proud of for all the right reasons, to see it twisted, it’s a real shame.”

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Sir Tom became a national celebrity aged 99 during the Covid pandemic when he began walking 100 lengths of his garden to raise money for the NHS charity, with a target of raising £1,000 by his 100th birthday. By the time he reached that milestone, his fundraising had exceeded £30 million.

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Meanwhile, his single with Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in April 2020, selling almost 36,000 copies in the first 48 hours.

After Sir Tom died in February 2021, aged 100, the song was used at his funeral service.

Ingram-Moore and her husband have now been disqualified from acting as charity trustees.

The family have said they dispute the report’s findings, saying the report has taken a “severe toll” on their health, and “unfairly tarnished” their name.

The findings of the report included a misleading implication that donations from book sales would go to the foundation, when proceeds from a £1.4m book deal were instead paid to family business Club Nook.